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Visual chromophore electronic structure

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The implications that recent work on the electronic structure of polyenes have for the low lying electronic states of retinal are reviewed and a very simple model for the diffuseness of the absorption spectra of visual chromophores is presented.

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Kohler, B.E. Visual chromophore electronic structure. Biophys. Struct. Mechanism 3, 101–106 (1977). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00535801

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